Doctors have also inserted a tube in the child's head, which required a small haircut.

"My daughter Lacy, she was like, 'Aw, mom, how cute, her first hair cut!' And she got me to ask the nurses if she could take it," Josephine said, with a laugh. "So she's keeping it."

Aurora's mother was a passenger in a car that was allegedly hit by an impaired driver. Brandy's friend, Taylor Litwin, 21, who was driving Brandy home for a sleep-over at the time of crash, died at the scene.

The accused driver of the other vehicle remains in custody. His bail hearing has been adjourned until Aug. 21.